FORESTAL CYON HALO
£8,499 • 29 in • forestal.com
Last month we rode the new Trek Fuel EXe, with its smooth, silent, unobtrusive motor and uncorrupted handling. If that piqued your interest in the emerging category of mid-power e-bikes, but you’re after something a little more exclusive than a Trek, then young upstart, Forestal, might have just the bike you’re looking for.
Situated in one of the main streets of Andorra la Vella, a stone’s throw from one of the most challenging downhill tracks on the World Cup circuit, in just a few years it has grown from a seed of an idea into a serious operation with a range of three mountain bikes, two urban bikes and a number of further models on the way.
But that’s just the start, with bold plans to bring its carbon manufacturing completely in-house in the next few years. And rather than use conventional thermoset carbon construction techniques, it’s developing a cutting-edge process that uses recyclable thermoplastic composite. Spools of carbon sheet will be cut and pressed into moulds – milled on giant CNC machines
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